COMMERCIAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10056, 30 May 1910, Page 6

COMMERCIAL.

LONDON MARKETS. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, report Laving received the following cable message from their London house dated the 26th instant: Frozen Meat. New Zealand Lamb and beef are in good demand with a firmer market, whilst it u'ton is poor demand with an unchanged market. To-day's quotations are as of flows: New Zealand prime ox beef, foes 4d, hinds s£d; crossbred lamb, Canterbury, heavy s|d, light, sd, North Island, heavy sd, light 5Jd; crossbred mutton, Canterbury, heavy 3§d, light 35d; North Island, heavy, 3id, light 3d. Tallow. ~\s compared with our wire of the lith May prices are 6d lower.

WEEKLY MARKET REPORT. The New Zealand Farmers' Distributing Company, Wellington, report as follows:-Potatoes, prime Up-to-dates, ±'6 10a per ton; onions, £4 to £4 103 per ton; butter, separator 10d, dairy 9d to 9£d per lb; cheese, best factory mediums, s£d to 5Ad per lb. loaf 6Jd to 7d 71b; dressed pork, 703 ! to 90's 4d to 4£d, 90's to 100's 4d, baconers 3gd to 4cl, choppers, heavy, 2d to 2|d; eggs, fresb 2s, preserved Is 2d per doz; bacon, factory sides 7d, rolls hams B|d per lb; honey, 4d to 41d per lb; beeswax. Is 41 to Is 6d per lb.; fungus, keen demand at 5Jd per lb; tallow, tins 24s cwt; maize, 3s 6d to 3s 9d per bushel; whent, 4s 2d to 4s 3d per bushel; wheat, broken 3s 6d .per bushel; bailey, feed, 3s 3d per bushel, cape, 33 6d per bushel; horse beans, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per bushel; partridge peas, 5s per bushel; Prussian blue pca3, 5s 63 psr bushel; barley meal. £5 10s per ton; sharps, £6 lOds per ton; bran, £4 15s par ton; chaff, oaten sheaf, £5 to £5 153 per ton; hay, prime £3 15s to £4 10s per ton; sucrosine, £6 10s per (on; straw, wheaten, £z 10s per ton; straw, oaten, £2 7s Gd per ton; linseed oil cake, genuine £l3 per ton; oats, feed, 2s 9d to 2s 10d. seed, sparrowbills, Gartons, Duns, 2s l()ci, Algerians 3s 3d per bushel, crushed, 2a lid per bushel; machine dressed cocksfoot, 6£d to 7d per lb; farmers' dressed cocksfoot, 5d to 6d per hi; per. ryegrass, 4s Cd to 5s per bushel; Italian ryegrass, 4s 3d to 4s 9d per bushel.

EKETAHUNA STOCK SALE. Messrs Dalgety and Company, Limited, repoit having held their usual fortnighly sale at Eketahuna on Friday, 27th inst.:—We had an average yarding of both sheep and cattle. Bidding was very Blow, but we quitted the bulk of cur yarding before the day closed. We quote: sheep: best lambs 7s; others 4s 6d to 6s Id; empty ewes 73 to 7s Id. Cattle: weaners 253 to 27s 6d, springing heifers £3 10s to £4 17s 6d; springing cows, £5 5s to £6 15s; empty cows, 25s to £2 7s 6d.